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Courts & crime, 1912

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Police Court. Monday, July 22. (Before Messrs A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse, Js.P.)

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 2

A defendant named Thomas Martin was fined 2/6, or imprisonment till the rising of the Court, on the charge of being found drunk; and £2, or a month,…

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Court Ladies and Boxing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 3

An American girl who has been a student in Germany for nearly two years has surprised her parents (says the "New York Tribune") by asking that a pair of boxing gloves…

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Murder and Suicide. a Victim of Sunstroke. London, Monday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 5

Farrow, a dismissed gamekeeper, shot and killed Mr. Watts, a large landowner, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, and then, having fired at Mrs. Watts, when he missed,…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 4

Before Mr. C. H. Gale. P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court, this morning's, two inobriates were dealt with, one being fined 10/, in default three days, and the other 1/, with…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 4

At the Kurri Police Court on Monday, before Mr. E. J. Cuteliffe, J. P. Thomas Jenkins for having made use of profane language in the har of the Station Hotel, on July 20,…

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Paterson Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 4

On July 22 before Mr. Henry Corner, J.P., one defendant was fined [?] or 24 hours drunkon[?] On the 23rd July, before Mr. J. S. Brown, J. P. and Mr. J. D. Tucker J.P., three defendants were…

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West Matland Police Court. Thursday, July 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 2

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. A RAILWAY CASE…

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Sentenced Foe Espionage. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 2

Armguard Carl Graves, deseribing himself as an Australian doctor, has been sentenced at Edinburg to [?] months' imprisonment for espionage…

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General Cable News. French Apaches Sentenced. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 5

All Apache named Lnuret, a son of General Lauret, has been sentenced to fice years imprisonment at Doual for a series of assaults and robberies, and a comrade, De…

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A Demented Mother. Charged with Murdering Daughter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 2

A married woman named Harrictt Lovell was charged at the Hobart Criminal Court on Tuesday with the murder of her daughter, Dorothy Lovell,…

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"Wharfies" at Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 5

Slxty-seven wharf labourers appeared before the Industrial Arbitration Court to allow why they should not be ordered to pay a penalty not exceeding £50 for having…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 2

At the quarterly Licensing Court, before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Elias Bowden and John Rourke, L.Ms., George Hoeffer, of the Kurri Kurri Hotel, applied for…

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The Singleton Argus. Thursday, JULY 25th. Labor and the High Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 2

One of the pet aversions of the Labor party, particularly the Federal wing of it, is the High Court. Fortunately for the good of the Commonwealth the…

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Family's Terrible Fate. Demented Mother Charged with Murder

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 9

Harriet Lovell, 35 a married woman, was charged at the Hobart Criminal Court with the murder of her daughter, Dorothy at…

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Our Singleton Letter. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 4

Mr. R. H. Allnutt P.M., occupied bench at the Police court yesterday. Edwin James Aird pleaded guilty to produce his motor cycle license,…

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Warden's Court.'

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 4

At the Warden's Court, held at the East Maitland courthouse, before the Warden (Mr. C. H. Gale P.M.) yesterday afternoon, Richard Hill, E. Kelly, and…

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Sentenced for Spying. Prisoner Claims to Be Australian Doctor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—The trial, which aroused widespread interest throughout Great Britain, of Armguart Carl Graves…

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Maitland District Court. Drainage Trust Action

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 2

This was an action brought by the Grahamstown and Campvale Swamps Drainage Trust against Isabella Windeyer, of Raymond Terrace. Plaintiffs…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 4

Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. at the West Maitland police court this morning, an inebriate, found drunk on the railway station, was remanded till Monday. Arthur…

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A Lincolnshire Magistrate in 1780

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 11

As Sir Francis Whichcote was dressing one morning, he perceived the undergroom making very free with his wall fruit. When breakfast was finished, he wrote a note…

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